Dear friend of Arkadia, You are heartily invited to “How to talk with other people. The Gestalt Therapy way” by psychotherapist Jan Erik Sundström on Friday 12.8 at 6pm. You will learn the theory and practise of the four stages of communicating according to gestalt psychotherapy. The lecture will be experiential. The talk will be in English and is open to all. Please don’t hesitate to ask questions and express your opinion. Welcome! Warm regards, Ian www.arkadiabookshop.fi -Entrance is free and green tea will be offered. A donation of €2 (or more!) to fund the event is suggested and would be most welcome. “How to talk with other people. The Gestalt Therapy way” by Jan Erik Sundström Gestalt Therapy (in Finnish Gestalt terapia or Hahmoterapia or Hahmopsykoterapia) is one of the most central of the human psychotherapies which emerged in the fifties in the USA, New York and Esalen, for instance. The father of Gestalt Therapy was Fritz Perls. In Scandinavia we have a Scandinavian version of Gestalt Therapy. The therapy method I usually use is role-playing, “the hot seat”. The aim is to grow as a human person and to start realizing yourself more and more (humanism). To take responsibility for yourself by “doing your own thing” (existentialism). And in gestalt communication responsibility became response-ability. Jan Erik Sundström, “Janne”, TEO-legalized psychotherapist, is the director of the Gestalt Institute of Finland (Suomen Hahmopsykoterapia Instituutti) since its foundation in 1984. Jan Erik Sundström’s , somewhat outdated, website is www.janne.com, his phone is +358405855000, and his office is in Helsingin Lääkärikeskus, Mannerheimintie 12 (just opposite Stockmann).